Teach Effectively!

Over on Letters from Lisa, Lisa Fischler has a couple of good posts under the heading “common myths about special education.” In the first post, she takes on this idea:

If I let this child (have extra time on tests, type his work, take more frequent breaks, etc.) I will have to let every child do it, in order to be fair.

In the second post, she provides observations about this idea:

This student is complaining that he’s “bored”, but I can’t give him more challenging work to do. He can’t even hand in the work that he already gets. His homework is always late, if he turns it in at all, and his written responses are too short and simplistic. How is he going to handle more difficult material?

Jump over there to read common myth #1 and common myth #2.